Maya Ravindranath
Assistant Professor
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts
- Examining the social and linguistic correlates of language shift away from ancestral languages and toward languages of wider communication in Belize and Indonesia.
- Understanding the relationship between language shift away from indigenous minority languages and the desire for upward mobility and socioeconomic development.
- Exploring variation in language and language change, with a focus on the choices that language users make that reflect their ideologies about language.
- Describing the Eastern New England dialect region, focusing on generational differences in non-urban areas of New Hampshire and Maine.